There are several ways to obtain the sources from Ethereal's Subversion
server.
</para>
+ <tip><title>Tip!</title>
+ <para>
+ Anonymous Subversion access can make your life much easier, compared to
+ update your source tree by using any of the zip file methods mentioned
+ below.
+ Subversion handles merging of changes into your personal source tree in a
+ very comfortable and quick way. So you can update your source tree several
+ times a day without much effort.
+ </para>
+ </tip>
<note><title>Note!</title>
<para>
The following ways to retrieve the Ethereal sources are sorted in
trunk is:
<ulink url="http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal/trunk/"/>.
</para>
- <tip><title>Tip!</title>
- <para>
- Anonymous Subversion access can make your life much easier, compared to
- update your source tree by using any of the zip file methods mentioned
- below.
- Subversion handles merging of changes into your personal source tree in a
- very comfortable and quick way. So you can update your source tree several
- times a day without much effort.
- </para>
- </tip>
<para>
See <xref linkend="ChToolsSubversion"/> how to install a Subversion client.
</para>
</para>
</section>
- <section id="ChSrcNightly">
- <title>Nightly snapshots</title>
+ <section id="ChSrcBuildbot">
+ <title>Buildbot Snapshots</title>
<para>
- Well, not recommended at all.
+ Recommended for development purposes, if direct Subversion access isn't
+ possible (e.g. because of a restrictive firewall).
</para>
<para>
- Age: up to 24 hours.
+ Age: a few minutes (a bit older than the anonymous Subversion access).
</para>
<para>
- The Subversion server will automatically generate a snapshot of Ethereal's
- sourcetree every night. These snapshots can be found at: <ulink
- url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/nightly-builds/"/>.
+ The buildbot server will automatically start to generate a snapshot of
+ Ethereal's sourcetree after a source code change committed.
+ These snapshots can be found at: <ulink
+ url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/source/"/>.
</para>
<para>
If anonymous Subversion access isn't possible, e.g. if the connection to
the server isn't possible because of a corporate firewall, the sources
- can be obtained by downloading this nightly snapshots. However, if you are
+ can be obtained by downloading this buildbot snapshots. However, if you are
going to maintain your sources in parallel to the "official" sources
- for some time, it's recommended to use the anonymour Subversion access if
+ for some time, it's recommended to use the anonymous Subversion access if
possible (believe it, it will save you a lot of time).
</para>
</section>
<title>What is a diff file (a patch)?</title>
<para>
A diff file is a plain text file containing the differences between a
- pair of files (or multiple of such pairs).
+ pair of files (or a multiple of such file pairs).
<tip><title>Tip!</title>
<para>A diff file is often also called a patch,
as it can be used to patch an existing source file or tree with changes